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To: ~digs who wrote (346)	1/19/2002 7:00:01 PM
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--------- Pictures of the Century From an Easter Parade in New York City on the first day of the 20th century to Bill Clinton playing the sax in 1994, the past century of American history is presented at Picturing the Century: 100 Years of Photography from the National Archives. Based on an exhibit at the archives, the site uncovers black-and-white images of the Wright Brothers, construction of the Empire State Building, a mushroom cloud - all in eight galleries of a dozen or so striking images each. Also included, portfolios of premier American photographers, from Dorothea Lange's small towns and bread lines to Ansel Adams' soaring, nature. nara.gov ----------- Signs 'I Really Love Signs' is a classic boutique web site devoted to a specialty hobby -- in this case, signs. Six galleries classify the sign genre into Hand-Painted, Neon/Bulbous, Plastic, Monumental, Type Samples and just plain Strange. In a homogenous world, these signs can be appreciated as part of a bizarre and wonderful universe - preserved here. pjchmiel.com ----------- Calorie Calculator A useful resource for weight watchers and the health conscious, the Calorie Calculator lets you pile the day's consumables into an easy-to-read chart and calculates the total calories, carbohydrates, fat, fiber, protein and sodium you've downed. More than 6,000 foods are in the database, making input as easy as pie. webfitnesstools.com ------------- The Art of Violin The violin may hold the distinction of making both the most painful and the loveliest music ever heard -- the former played by a practicing 7-year-old, the latter by a superstar like Itzhak Perlman. The Art of Violin from Great Performances may turn you into a super-fan. Visitors can learn about the violin in Anatomy of the Instrument, read biographies of modern violinists like Perlman, send questions to experts and, most satisfying, hear the unique sound and style of such artists as Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern and many others. Online lesson plans lead kids through a history of the instrument that produces an array of sounds as amazing as the range of human emotion. pbs.org ------------ Wallpaper Changer Watching the wallpaper gains new meaning at Wallpaper Changer, a site full of free tools that lets Windows users manage their screen wallpaper as if it were a stock portfolio. Select from many wallpapers supporting JPEG, PNG, GIF and BMP formats, and then program a constantly evolving look to occur on startup, once a day, randomly or at regular intervals. It's a lot like decorating your home with an interior designer. Tile, center or resize your images, even have them analyzed to find the best matching backgrounds or most readable icon captions. Create, save and reload your favorite wallpapers or, for a fun look, make your desktop icon captions transparent so your wallpaper shows through. wallpaperchanger.de ------------- DVDs To Go If you spend more on late charges than on movie rentals, can't remember titles you're dying to see, or if the DVD selection at your video rental store is anemic, Netflix could answer your prayers. For $19.95/month, rent unlimited DVDs with no due dates, no late fees, no per-movie fees, and no driving --- the mailman delivers, at no shipping cost. Browse the site's 10,000 titles by genre, collections (like "Steamy Cinema" or "Indies Greatest"), read the reviews and start your online list. Netflix mails you the first 3 available DVDs on your list, and they keep coming as long as you never have more than 3 at a time. The site offers a one month free trial. netflix.com ------------ JobStar Central Resumes Looking for a job? The dreaded resume can get you hired, or sunk. At JobStar Central, job seekers will find the tools and resources, sample resumes, how-to's and tricks to get their foot in the door, including tips on cover letters and evaluations of electronic resume banks. jobstar.org ------------ Dictionary of British Slang We say fat, they say "salad dodger"…? At the Dictionary of British Slang, the everyday speech of those nutty Brits is translated, alphabetized and defined with sample sentences, a search engine and a submission form so users can keep up with current lingo. dictionaryofslang.co.uk ------------ Global Volunteers Want to really do something with your life? Plant flowers in Ireland to free up the locals to work for peace, teach Jamaican children to read, or build homes for Appalachians here in the USA. Global Volunteers, a nonprofit international service program, hooks up do-gooders with human and economic development projects worldwide. Local communities ask for help, then Global Volunteers sends teams to live and work on projects that will have a long-term impact. From Mississippi pool halls to Buddhist monuments in Indonesia, volunteers also are enriched by absorbing cultures rich in history and tradition, if poor in economic resources. globalvolunteers.org ------------- Mensa IQ & Intelligence Do smart people have more fame, success, wealth and fun? According to the folks at Mensa IQ & Intelligence, Mensans have IQs in the top 2% of the population but otherwise are just like you and me, rich and poor, successful and not, in every occupation and class. As to the fun -- you be the judge. Visitors to the web site are linked to Mensa-related sites to take a variety of IQ and other intelligence tests, read Mensa jokes, play Mensa games, solve Mensa puzzles. Articles explore the role of intelligence, types of intelligence and give guidance to parents of gifted children. euthanasia.org ------------ Motel Postcards Today's roadside motel signs are bland, weak warriors against the behemoths of Holiday Inn, where tired travelers turn in for the security of familiar mediocrity. It used to be different, and Motel Postcards shows you just how different. Time-travel to the 50s and 60s, when small motels along the highways were the oddball norm, through this collection of motel postcards from across the USA. Neon signs, scratchy sheets and seedy desk clerks aside, we will not see the likes of the Goldenrod Motel in Huntsville Alabama, or Oregon's Tropicana again - except here, in their full-color glory. lileks.com ------------ Source for the above info: tricksandtrinkets.com

To: ~digs who wrote (346)	2/17/2002 6:57:28 PM
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--------------- Face Blindness If you never forget a face, you can't imagine what life is like for Cecilia Burman, who suffers from prosopagnosia, a condition that makes her unable to recognize the human face. Face Blindness was created by Cecilia to help you understand. Those who are face-blind see just fine - it's not about vision - but their brains can't record and retrieve images of the human face because the brain center responsible for face recognition is out of whack. Using rocks to illustrate the condition and guide visitors, Cecilia explains how those with face blindness use clothing, voices and context to identify friends, how the malfunction occurs and how she gets along without the cues the rest of us take for granted. prosopagnosia.com ------------- Learn Spanish Donde esta la clase? It's right there in your computer at Learn Spanish, an extensive and mostly free collection of learning tools, from simple pronunciation tutorials to verb and vocabulary drills. Determined students can sign up for premium services that give access to hundreds more quizzes, tests and other tools. studyspanish.com ------------- The On-Line Books Page The Internet has a way of snatching and remaking tasks performed by other media like TV and CD players … now it's going after books. While reading off a monitor can never replace curling up with a bundle of paper bound together by thread and glue, a quick glance at the 15,000 titles available at The Online Books Page has its own allure. With subjects from religion to science, philosophy to art, all titles are free on the Internet. The site's creator, a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, also offers links to directories and archives of other online texts, special exhibits like "banned books," and other info to support the growth of online books. onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu ------------ Lifeguarding How could one possibly learn to jump in the ocean and save drowning people by using a computer? If it is possible, the rescue will happen here at Lifeguarding, an online training course for professional lifeguards. No sunscreen required. Created with the National Safety Council, the site uses dramatic simulations to test the user's ability to identify and respond to life-threatening scenarios in and out of water, from unconscious floating to spinal injuries. Not for the wannabe lifeguard, this sophisticated site evaluates the user's choice of techniques like the Duck Pluck and Vise Grip and goes on to test other professional requirements, like passing an internal audit and guest relations. chiave.com ------------ Ode to a Turntable The "coolest of the cool" among lost-and-found cultural objects, turntables have made a comeback recently, and musicologists almost drool over the sound of a needle sliding around a vinyl disk. At Ode to a Turntable, Technics has created a memorial to the cherished deck as part of its 30th anniversary celebration. You need Shockwave and Flash 5 for full enjoyment, but it's well worth it to tour this labor of love from the techies who created the site. It's also a soft advertisement for the company's history in audio production, but you figure they deserve the credit once you cruise through Legacy, an audiovisual history of 30 years of turntable production and The Deck Story, taking visitors right down inside the engineering. technics1210.com -------------- Head Trip At The Secret Life of the Brain, the fascinating organ that controls your universe is explained, launching a five-part PBS series premiering in winter 2002. Get a head-start here with dynamic visuals and compelling human stories that even those with low wattage brain power can grasp. A timeline takes visitors through the highs and lows of brain discoveries, like the 1817 finding that revealed Parkinson's disease, and a 3-dimensional tour of the brain via ShockWave lets you zoom in and out for detailed views. At Mind Illusions, play with how our brains grasp movement, color, angles and form, or click on Episodes to learn how the brain develops from birth to old age. pbs.org ---------------- Internet Study Guide Combine Cliff Notes, your math tutor and that nerd in your chem lab and you've got something close to Spark Notes Study Guides. Whether your final exam is on Othello, trig, even electrochemistry or thermodynamics, SparkNotes is your new best friend. With extensive study guides for literature, astronomy, philosophy, history - you name it - this is the site for students to bookmark for semester-long reference or that big exam. Fifteen different subject areas are thoroughly covered, including an entire section devoted to Shakespeare, with summaries, timelines and terminology. Each subject area has what's needed most, like sample problems in the math section. sparknotes.com ----------- A Beautiful Mind If you liked the movie, try the homework. Here is the faculty page of John Nash, Nobel laureate and subject of the current film starring Russell Crowe as Dr. Nash, the brilliant, troubled mathematician who still studies game theory, cosmology and gravitation at Princeton University. math.princeton.edu ------------ Photography Ratings From "Boots N Shoes" to "Jagged Leaves," PhotoSIG shows photos by people who like to take pictures, whether homebound snapshooters or working pro's. The twist: everyone gets to critique everyone's photos, just like a photography class. The site is new, so all sections are not fully built-out, but there's no lack of interesting photos to be browsed by ratings, photographer or subect matter - even Most Controversial - and a robust discussion forum is full of talk about photo quality scanners, f stops and the business of e-photography. Post your questions about photography in the Photo Answer Man forum or read articles, coming soon, about your favorite hobby. photosig.com --------------- E-nature Discover nature at home at E-nature, the National Wildlife Federation's full-service web site for nature lovers. Want to attract creatures to your own backyard, or find out what poisonous snakes might be in the local park? E-nature can help with its Local Field Guides, searchable by zip code. The site takes visitors beyond their own fence, too, with field guides for 5,000 species and a ParkFinder, offering maps, species lists and reviews of parks and wildlife refuges nationwide. But the site's distinction is its local focus. Use the online habitat planner, learn how to have your yard certified by the National Wildlife Federation and get expert answers to nature questions, like why birds fly into windows. enature.com ----------- Source for the above text: tricksandtrinkets.com